Pecan Grove, TX
Pecan Grove wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pecan Grove at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,613 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pecan Grove at the 64th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55.1% of Pecan Grove's 8,613 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 9.9% Direct and 35.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 8,613 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pecan Grove ranks
Pecan Grove's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pecan Grove ranks 12,339 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,933 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,521 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pecan Grove's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 55.1% of Pecan Grove's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Pecan Grove's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,613 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pecan Grove. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pecan Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.